Before I started my three months journey I thought I knew how it would impact me. I was even a little afraid that I was too self aware for it to actually impact me. Once I got moving and met all the wonderful people on the road I realized my ideas were quite presumptuous and didn’t turn out to come true. The trip caught me totally off guard and it shaped me in a way that I would never have thought of. Something deep inside of me is different. I understood that my experience while travelling is personal and each persons trip is going to be unique. Coming home was similar, I had an idea what would happen. How I would act and how the people waiting for me back home would act. Then when I finally got home my predictions were in no way in line with reality.

Welcome home gift.

I got home to Iceland in the middle of the night, my best friend Daníel picked me up and dropped me home. I enter my room and everything is where I left it, I fell into bed and was knocked out almost immediately. Over the course of a week I met up with friends and family, we hugged, smiled and they asked me how it was, I said amazing and that’s that. It’s like I never left. Three months isn’t that long of a time period, not much had changed. Some pregnancies and pregnancy announcements. It was like I stepped into a different world, full of responsibilities and routine. I felt like an alien in human disguise. These three months had been packed with adventure and life changing stories. Then suddenly I come back, like it never happened.

Had a new nephew waiting for me.

The hardest thing for me coming back is the mundane stress. I’ve always been quite vulnerable to stress. Suddenly I see it all around me, people being stressed about everything down to the small detail. I have no desire to make those a part of my life again. Few weeks ago the only worry that I had was, “where do I go next?”. I mean it’s just life, enjoy it while you can. Build a life that is not only worth living, but a life you can enjoy. I am still determined to hold on to the fire inside and stick to the lessons I learned on the road and I would like to leave a few of them here.

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Sigurpáll Albertsson

Hæ! My name is Sigurpáll Albertsson, but most non-Icelanders call me SiggiP. I have a purple belt in BJJ, a black belt in Judo and a passion for most martial arts. Through the Globetrotters community I've gotten to know a whole new world of like minded people and I'm eager to travel more and meet more of you. I enjoy writing as an certain creative output for me and being able to share my experience. If you want to see some pictures from my travels and training follow me on Instagram at Nomadic.Fighter.